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You're saying Fox is driving the Ocasio-is-stupid narrative but then the counter to that should be that more left-friendly media is promoting at least one of the other hundred, regardless of freshmen status. That's not happening though. Seems to me all that glad-handing over such a big female presence was for nothing... or is there simply no story about any of the hundred new members because they're truly uninteresting? Nearly a fifth of congress isn't worth a story? Odds on that seem unlikely....

She is the one pushing bold ideas the loudest and is extremely savvy on social media. She is also extraordinarily likable for a lot of the country. Believe it or not, a lot of America can relate to someone from a regular background who didn't go to Yale and didn't run for Congress because they had so much cash on hand that they could afford to. Also, because we're still America and we're not past this sort of thing, she is also very photogenic.

She seems like a genuinely good person with genuinely good intentions who genuinely cares about people. It isn't that hard to figure out her popularity. A lot of the country will like her and a certain percent that is oddly equal to ***** Grabber's base will reflexively hate her.

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It is a young Latino woman who doesn't sit quietly and let people define her. Of course the GOP was going to demonize her.

She habitually controls her own narrative and is constantly asking the best questions in her hearings (the Union Bank one didn't make a lot of sense out of context, but she was basically just asking them to be accountable for funding something detrimental), which is pretty ****ing impressive for being as young as she is. Notice how she was the only one not grandstanding during the Cohen hearing.

She is called a Communist for paying everyone on her staff a living wage. She actually represents her constituency by taking their calls instead of soliciting donations. She pushes bold ideas.

All she needs now is to start wearing a cape!

I had to go look it up and was surprised she's as old as she is. I figured she was in her early 20s, maybe. Everything she speaks is platitudes. It's what I would expect from a person fresh out of four year college with a poli-sci background but no real knowledge of the world.

And yeah, I know already it's totally forbidden to speak ill of a young Latino* woman but that's why I only do it anonymously from the shadows of the internet.

Agreed, just based on scope alone.
Giant, omni-bill stuff always ends up sucking and failing to fulfill its basic promise. These guys would have more support from me if they stuck with more earthbound ideas that address a single issue. Pick something and fix that, not everything else along with it.

Well, the "thoughts and prayers" tweet last night was ill-advised. But I suppose it doesn't matter. We'll all be dead in 10 years.

Her Tweet was dead on. **** this fetishism with guns that tries to mourn acts of violence like this and stop exactly there.

Your dismissal of the dangers of climate change is duly noted. We happen to be on the one speck of habitable rock in the galaxy and this speck has mostly tried to kill anything which tried to exist upon it. By all means, let’s pretend a few billion organisms pumping all kinds of **** into the air and water and soil couldn’t possibly be impacting the window upon which life, let alone our preferred method of civilization, is sustainable.

Clearly I would much rather chance the above rather than something truly dangerous like government-subsidized child care.

I had to go look it up and was surprised she's as old as she is. I figured she was in her early 20s, maybe. Everything she speaks is platitudes. It's what I would expect from a person fresh out of four year college with a poli-sci background but no real knowledge of the world.

And yeah, I know already it's totally forbidden to speak ill of a young Latino* woman but that's why I only do it anonymously from the shadows of the internet.

*shouldn't that be "Latinx"?

Yeah, I am increasingly less surprised when you again belittle a...wait for it...woman. Watch her eviscerate Wilbur Ross and tell me how dumb she is. She’s doing that sort of **** on a weekly basis.

She seems like exactly the sort of person I want in Congress. Clever, honest, cognizant, well-intentioned, not beholden to old ways of thinking or to donor money. The sheer number of people trying to tear down her intelligence was to be expected.

The TP fiscal conservative Republicans are our nation's only hope.

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Agreed, just based on scope alone.
Giant, omni-bill stuff always ends up sucking and failing to fulfill its basic promise. These guys would have more support from me if they stuck with more earthbound ideas that address a single issue. Pick something and fix that, not everything else along with it.

Thinking the same thing. Example: How about a goal of making 50% of all new car manufacturing focus on affordable electric cars in 10 years. That's doable.

We happen to be on the one speck of habitable rock in the galaxy and this speck has mostly tried to kill anything which tried to exist upon it. By all means, let’s pretend a few billion organisms pumping all kinds of **** into the air and water and soil couldn’t possibly be impacting the window upon which life, let alone our preferred method of civilization, is sustainable.

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It is a young Latino woman who doesn't sit quietly and let people define her. Of course the GOP was going to demonize her.

Well, she's defining herself as an idiot. So maybe she should sit quietly for awhile so the adults can talk.

She habitually controls her own narrative and is constantly asking the best questions in her hearings (the Union Bank one didn't make a lot of sense out of context, but she was basically just asking them to be accountable for funding something detrimental), which is pretty ****ing impressive for being as young as she is. Notice how she was the only one not grandstanding during the Cohen hearing.

That's like saying the drunk at the party hitting on everyone's wife is just "controlling the narrative."

She is called a Communist for paying everyone on her staff a living wage.

I don't think that's why she's called a communist there, Skippy.

She actually represents her constituency by taking their calls instead of soliciting donations. She pushes bold ideas.

You know who else pushes "bold" ideas? Trump. Just ask him.

Remember that hated politician Robert Kennedy? The one who said "Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

Remember when AOC said, "unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs."

Well, we actually have someone in congress asking why not. Two, if you count Bernie. Three if you count Warren. However many, except none on the GOP side, oddly, unless it involves a tax cut for the wealthiest.

Problem is, the question has already been asked and answered. And in an effort to avoid internal conflict, the DNC has been slow to slap her down as the idiot she is. That's starting to change, though.